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Subject: [Leica] The M9 Has Supernatural Powers
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:53:57 +0200
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WOW--and I touched this very camera on Wednesday--maybe the good karma  
will rub off!

:-)

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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On Sep 21, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Neil Beddoe wrote:

> I took mine on a cycle ride with my children yesterday and had it in  
> a small camera bag in a pannier on the back of my bike.  We stopped  
> in a playground on the way back and I was just putting the camera in  
> its case when my daughter fell over and started to cry.  I quickly  
> stuffed it  back in the pannier thinking "I must remember to put  
> that away properly" and picked her up for a cuddle.  Anyway, we left  
> the park and cycled home for a couple of miles along footpaths and  
> busy roads.  When I got home there was some minor domestic emergency  
> which occupied me for about 40 minutes and after it was dealt with I  
> went to the bike to get the camera to load the pictures onto the  
> computer.  No M9 and attached 35 summiliux!
>
> I ran around the house in a panic and looked in all the places I  
> might have left it when I got home but no camera.  Having descended  
> into a headless chicken impersonation, I jumped back on the bike and  
> set off the way I had come home.  After about half a mile I came  
> across it peacefully sitting right in the middle of a gravel path  
> unmarked and apparently enjoying the view.  My son and I cycle on  
> the path regularly and I estimate that about 20 people walk past in  
> an average hour so the fact that nobody saw it and picked it up is  
> incredibly.
>
> I don't believe in luck but I think I've got a four standard  
> deviation M9.
>
> Neil
>
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